How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces, sentence 13
Dogs learn daily routines and may notice how a person's smell fades in the house during the day, which may help them seem to know when someone is coming home.
Who acts: Dogs, smell, smells, someone, person · What happens: learn, notice, fade, help, seem, know · To what, where: daily routines, house
This is a sentence of the lesson «How a dog thinks: a world of smells, sounds and faces» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, smell, smells, someone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learn | nsubj |
| 2 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 routines | amod |
| 4 | routines | routine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 learn | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 notice | cc |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 notice | aux |
| 7 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 learn | conj |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 fades | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smell | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 person | case |
| 12 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fades | nsubj |
| 13 | fades | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 notice | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fades | obl |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fades | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 help | nsubj |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 help | aux |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 notice | parataxis |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seem | nsubj |
| 25 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 help | xcomp |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 know | mark |
| 27 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seem | xcomp |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 coming | advmod |
| 29 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 31 coming | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 coming | aux |
| 31 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 know | advcl |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 coming | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | Dogs | daily routines | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent routine=Topic | ||||
| 2 | notice | may | Dogs not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | fade | present | a person's smell | the house | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | help | may | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | seem | infinitive | smells = smell | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | know | to-infinitive | smells = smell not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | come | present · progressive | someone | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | smell | a person | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:193-how-a-dog-thinks-smells-sounds-and-faces.lesson:13.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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